Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-03-15
GENERAL NEWS.

President Cleveland will be sc
years old on the 18th inst.
Hannibal, Mo-, claims to have dis.
covered a vein OF natural gas.
Senator Edmunds thinks Cleveland
will be nominated again.
John Goodwin, Jr., shot Charles
Morehead fatally at Potomac, III.
The B. & o. strike in Pennsylvania
is assuming large proportions.
Secretary Manning is to take triI
abroad for the benefit of his health
| Negroes are being imported to take
the place ofstriking miners at Peoria
The yachts Dauntless and Coronet
started on their transatlantic race OF
time.
Henry Ward Beecher's will wal
probated at Brooklyn, N. Y, Satur.
day.
Helena, Ark, is to have street-cars
a company being organized there yes.
terday.
A fatal accident occurred in a Chi
cago machine-shop from the bursting
of fly.wheel.
Another fatal dynamite explosion
has occurred at the Bay Chester, N
Y, factory.
Charles Leech committed suicide al
Kirksville, Mo-, by throwing himself
under train.
Mrs Ruth Harmon, grandmother of
Mira. Grover Cleveland, died Sunday
at Jackson, Mich.
VIM. Eaton and Charles Green
were murdered by night-riders near
Sparta, Mo.
Rhode Island Is badly excited over
outbreaks of hog cholera and pleuro-
pneumonia.
William Elers was badly stabbed
by Mike RoSenaur at dance in JEFF
ferson county, Missouri.
F. C. Whipple, city editor of the
Toledo Bee, was cowhided by Mrs.
Joseph Feak.
The American base ball association
at Cleveland, o., perfected the sea-
sons schedule of games.
Alex Crawford, negro murderer,
was taken from the Winona, (Miss.),
Jail by mob and lynched,
Rhode Island Democrats nominated
full state ticket and indorsed the
national administration.
Memphis, Tenn, has ordered blood
hounds from Philadelphia with which
to hunt down criminals.
Jas. w. Bingham, a journalist en-
ployed on the indianapolis Sentinel,
committed suicide.
James f. Goodman, of Randolph
county, Mo, beat bis wife to death
and then committed suicide.
A big opium smuggling scheme
has been unearlhed at Detroit and
one of the smugglers arrested.
Hanlan and Gaudaur are to row on
May 30 for the championship Of
America. Place not yet decided
upon.
Lewis Pike, known as a miserlv
old thief, died at Newport, Mass. He
left a large amount of personal prop
erty.
The Indiana supreme court refused
to grant rehearing to Smith in the
Indiana lieutenant-governorship con-
test.
The statement that John G. New
was seriously stricken with paralysis
is somewhat modified by later dis
patches.
Robbers forced the express messen-
ger at Coleman, Tex, to open his safe,
and they took the contents, over $1,000
and got away.
Mrs. Lizzie Curtis, of Emporia,
Kas., attempted suicide by shooting
herself with a pistol. 1t is thought
she will die.
An outbreak of half-breeds is APP
pretended in Dakota and the mill
tary of the territory is being placed
in readiness for service.
An unknown young man threw
himself under an immense crank
shaft in the water works at Chicago
and was ground to pulp.
Ex-senator Jones of Florida wants
to be reelected, and 1t is said promis-
es sensational reasons for his continu-
ed absence from Washington
An emigrant train on the B. s. o. |
road was wrecked and sixteen of the
people recently arrived by the steam
er Rhein were injured.
Henry Arts (colored) was hanged
at Middlesboro, N. c., yesterday for
the murder ofhis step-daughter. He
confessed OH gallows.
The result of the post-mortem ex-
animation of the bodies of Robert
and Cornelia Denmead at New
Brunswick, N. j., shows that they
starved to death.
For Coughs, Colds, Horseness,